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The Bitterweed Path

By Phillips, Thomas Hal

The Bitterweed Path

By Phillips, Thomas Hal

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Originally published in 1950, the long out-of-print novel The Bitterweed Path was rediscovered in 1996 with the support of John Howard’s critical introduction. In the years since, new generations have witnessed its subtle yet daring contribution to Southern gay literature. This 75th anniversary edition includes a new foreword by John Howard and a new afterword by Harry Thomas Jr. that provide fresh insight into the workings of race, class, and queerness in this enduring novel.
In The Bitterweed Path, Thomas Hal Phillips vividly recreates rural Mississippi at the turn of the twentieth century. In elegant prose, he draws on the Old Testament story of David and Jonathan and writes of the friendship and love between two boys—one a sharecropper’s son and the other the son of the landlord—and the complications that arise when the father of one of the boys falls in love with his son’s friend. Defying stereotypes about both Mississippi and the 1950s, The Bitterweed Path challenges conceptions of the US South as a place devoid of queerness and reimagines it as alive with same-sex desire.
Product details
Edition:
2
Number of Pages:
370
Release Date:
2025-10-21
Publication Date:
2025-10-21
Publisher:
The University of North Carolina Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1469691752
ISBN13:
9781469691756
Weight:
536 g
Height:
132 cm
Width:
209 cm
Thickness:
25 cm
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